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Originally Posted by afterthefact
What is your pop guilty pleasure? I know we have had threads like this before, but people are always to afraid of losing popularity points and play it safe with picks like The Ramones or The Clash. What I want is a TRULY Top 40's/Total Request Live/Real World Soundtrack popular pleasure. Any Britney Spears fans here? Got a Papa Roach poster up on the wall? Can't muster up the strength to take Blink 182 off the ipod rotation? That's what I am looking for here. To get it started, I have a soft spot for bands like Circa Survive and Chiodos. Don't know why, I just like them. Also I can dig some Phantom Planet or Rooney from time to time. It goes against the grain of my usual avante-garde/punk/indie/etc selections I would choose, but I just simply like them.
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Phantom Planet are fuckin' cool man. I own one of their albums and it's a solid pop record.
People consider Britney etc pop, but I just consider that manufactured shit. Pop is a distinctive thing that can only be caught within a band, and then it's a beautiful thing. Beatles, Built to Spill (with a touch of 'indie'), Silverchair, Lo-tel, all great pop bands to name a few. It can all sound different but it's still got those lush, catchy, beautiful hooks and song structure. I guess that's why I don't consider pop a dirty, embarrasing thing. Although, alot of bands I consider pop are'nt the 'cool' thing to like - not tough enough or something, I guess. I don't know.